Sunday, May 27, 2012

Observation :

Table 1: Calculated values associated with the reaction between Silver nitrate and copper




            Trial #

    Mass of Dry Silver      Residue (g)


     Theoretical Yield (g)


Percentage Yield (%)

               1

         1.837 g

          0.664 g

           277 %

               2

         1.28 g

         0.71 g

          180 %

               3

         1.166 g

        0.67 g

           174%

              4

         0.749 g

        0.73 g

           102 %

             5

        0.72 g

       0.73g

            98 %


                  When the amount of actual yield ( mass of dry silver residue ) becomes far high compared to the theoretical yield, the resulting percent yield greater than 100% which is not correct.     


Figure 1: Copper wire and the dried silver residue of Group 5 A.M 


- the color of the copper wire quite faded away and turns into quite reddish from the original color which is quite brownish orange. 

Figure 2: Silver metal forming from the reaction of Silver nitrate and copper wire.



4 comments:

  1. Should we add how the silver supposed to look after the experiment by observing other group's results?

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  2. yeah i think so. and if we have an image of the silver while its still attached with the copper wire, please upload it coz its a good image to add in the observation part.

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  3. Maybe we can add that the silver should look bright/look like silver and not dull, and it supposed to look like crystals when it was still attached to copper wire.

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